The sovereign citizen movement claims that a person has the right under common law (or at least their bizarre sham definition thereof) to declare him/herself as essentially a nation unto themselves, and therefore may not be subject to the law of the land where they live. It is closely associated,...
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Strawman theory (Also called the Strawman illusion) is a pseudolegal theory prevalent in various movements such as sovereign citizen, tax protestor, freeman on the land, the redemption movement and various "get out of debt free" scams.The theory holds that an individual has two personas...
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Dec 19, 2012Michael Gonzalez, left, and David Sanchez, right, are seen in police mug shots.SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —A street gang named Poor Side Watsonville brainstormed a plan to smuggle a large amount of drugs into the Santa Cruz County Jail that went awry, investigators said on Wednesday.Two weeks...
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By John Tierney - December 11, 2012LEFT BEHIND Wendy Evil raised her sister's three children when her sister, Stephanie George, went to prison.TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Stephanie George and Judge Roger Vinson had quite different opinions about the lockbox seized by the police from her home in Pensac...
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By Hernando Today - December 17, 2012BROOKSVILLE --There was a peeing match between two inmates at the Hernando County Detention Center last week and it wasn't metaphorical.Estelle Julia Vitiello, 22, was charged Friday with one count of felony battery involving urine against f...
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Monday, December 17, 2012Driven by an ever-escalating “war on drugs,” the number of federal prisoners incarcerated in the United States has increased by ten times in just 30 years—27 times faster than the rate of population growth. According to a report released by the Urban Institute, the federa...
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Inside Vienna: The state of Illinois prisonsCorrections costs Illinois taxpayers more than a billion dollars a year. What is it we’re hoping to achieve?By: Rob Wildeboer - December 17, 2012Image courtesy of the Illinois Department of Corrections Inmates at Vienna prison in far southern Illinois....
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Re-inventing college for prisonsTwo ex-inmates are trying to bring higher education to the incarcerated, one maximum security facility at a timeBy Graham Kates,The Crime Report - Dec 15, 2012 This article originally appeared on The Crime Report, the nation's largest criminal justice news source...
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HOW SNITCHES PAY FOR FREEDOM - Graphical IllustrationCourt records show that federal inmates in Atlanta tried to buy information about other criminals to win early freedom.http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/14/jailhouse-informants-for-sale/1762013/